Word: khazei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he found his calling while working on legislation to study the prospects of a national public service program. Trading ideas and hopes with Khazei--who was still in Cambridge--every night by phone, Brown says it was during that year that he came to understand the power of service to "focus and mature...
Once back at Harvard, Brown says he and Khazei began to pursue the idea of a national service program with more vigor. They began meeting weekly with a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who would go on to serve as mentor for many years...
Brown says working with HLS faculty members, such as University Professor Frank I. Michaelman, introduced him and Khazei to the idea of civic republicanism, a theory about creating civic virtue among all people, not just the elite...
Brown believes that what most attracted donors like Jackson was that, at the height of Eighties materialism, he and Khazei were Harvard alums who were putting their pedigree to work for an idealistic project...
...City Year's current status is any measure of the level of trust built in the past 11 years, Khazei, now in Bosnia, and Brown have been tremendously successful...